Original text: (12 things that excite us in Web3 in 2025)
Author: The Spartan Group
Translated by: Zombit
2024 will be a pivotal year for Web3, as institutional capital brings Bitcoin ETFs, RWA (Real World Asset tokenization), and stablecoins into focus. At the same time, artificial intelligence (AI) will become a transformative force across the industry, while the meme coin craze highlights changing user behavior. As we enter 2025, members of the Spartan team share trends and opportunities that will shape the next phase of growth.
Consulting Services Department
Bitcoin will become a reserve asset for the Federal Reserve; altcoins will reach historical highs; AI agents will create currencies based on cryptocurrency infrastructure.
— Melody He, Co-founder and Partner, Co-Director of Spartan Advisory (𝕏: @melmelmelting)
In 2025, we will see significant integration of Web3 infrastructure companies.
Small to medium regional exchanges, staking service providers, custodians, prime brokers, data companies, media platforms, etc., will all become acquisition targets. OG founders seek to exit, while larger industry players (including some non-Web3 participants) hope to rapidly expand their licensing coverage, geographic reach, and product offerings. — Casper B. Johansen, Co-founder and Partner, Co-Director of Spartan Advisory (𝕏: @CasperJohansen)
Applications, applications, applications. More applications!
The adoption scale of DeFi, AI, and stablecoins will grow rapidly, and the growth rate of the Web3 ecosystem will outpace that of any other technology sector.
— Leeor Groen, Managing Director of Spartan Group (𝕏: @leeorgroen)
Cryptocurrency technology is becoming the core of the post-human digital economy (assets, infrastructure, liquidity), empowering both humans and artificial intelligence.
A huge leap in user experience is coming: Large Language Models (LLMs, such as @TXT2TXN) will transform natural language into seamless machine interactions, driving intent-based applications (like @Anoma). AI agents utilize smarter oracles and consensus mechanisms that merge human judgment with AI outcomes (such as @chaoslabs), achieving scalable coordination and validation through execution sharding (like @KRNL). The future should feel effortless. — Yan Ma, Vice President of Spartan Group (𝕏: @zi0nn_eth)
In 2025, what I look forward to the most is the progress of decentralized science (DeSci).
Blockchain is changing the way research is conducted, making collaboration more transparent, data sharing more secure, and funding distribution more equitable. DeSci leverages blockchain to tackle challenges in research, funding, and data sharing, promoting the development of DAOs, intellectual property tokenization, and decentralized data systems, thereby fostering transparency and collaboration. I look forward to seeing DeSci drive scientific discoveries through innovative funding and ownership models, profoundly impacting human life. — Silver Ng, Analyst at Spartan Group (𝕏: @silverngct)
Asset Management Department
NFTs will make a strong comeback in 2025.
Despite most people currently thinking NFTs are 'dead', this rebound will surprise everyone, and the volatility of their prices will be shocking.
— Kelvin Koh, Co-founder and Partner, Chief Investment Officer of Spartan Capital (𝕏: @SpartanBlack_1)
In 2025, I am most excited about DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks).
Cryptocurrency technology is shifting from the product itself to a driving force solving real-world problems. We have already seen some early successes — for example, Bittensor is revolutionizing open-source AI, while Grass and Render Network are utilizing consumer hardware to meet growing data and computing demands. DePIN is opening up a future of infrastructure that is decentralized, accessible, and empowering global communities. Through token-based incentive mechanisms, these innovations are driving breakthroughs in areas like AI, telecommunications, and energy. I look forward to 2025 to see these cryptocurrency-driven products achieve mainstream adoption, seamlessly integrating into our daily lives.
— Chetanya Khandelwal, Investment Assistant at Spartan Group (𝕏: @Chetanya_K)
In 2024, we witnessed significant attention on intent-based solutions, such as the collaboration between Across and Uniswap on ERC-7683 — a universal standard for cross-chain intent.
For 2025, what I look forward to the most is to see these infrastructures mature into a unified network where intentions can seamlessly flow between protocols. With improved clearing opportunities and capital efficiency, we are moving towards a future where users only need to express their needs (e.g., 'let my ETH earn 5%'), and complex cross-chain execution and combinations will be handled automatically by efficient participants. — Jose Sanchez, Investment Assistant at Spartan Group (𝕏: @tumilett)
Venture Capital Research Department
Artificial intelligence will further lower the technical barriers, leading to explosive growth in short-lived applications created by non-technical users for their specific needs.
Many of these applications will be agentic. Conversational AI agents will evolve into on-chain AI agents, creating new use cases in gaming, entertainment, DeFi, and governance. In the future, a large number of transactions on the blockchain will be initiated by these semi-autonomous agents, executing tasks on behalf of human operators. — Adrian Lai, Creative Director (Studio Head), Spartan Labs (𝕏: @adrianlai)
Agent-based software will further upgrade, helping humans handle increasingly complex tasks rather than just simple automation.
We will witness the birth of truly decentralized, open-source AI models and the emergence of innovative monetization methods. With growing privacy needs, secure computing technologies (like Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) and Multi-Party Computation (MPC)) will become mainstream. Moreover, as people seek to escape the flood of low-quality AI robots, 'human-only social platforms' will quickly rise. — Audrey Taylor-Akwenye, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Spartan Labs (𝕏: @0xOddrey)
The combination of AI and cryptocurrency technology seems poised to fulfill its long-held prophecies, with 2025 ushering in a truly exciting era of cryptocurrency applications.
The AI-generated 'reply robot' will soon be forgotten, replaced by high-quality domain experts (think AIXBT covering countless niche areas). With the backing of on-chain agents, humanity will finally glimpse the possibilities of sharing a future with AI. And I am ready to welcome our AI overlords. Also, when the single created by Zerebro and Travis Scott hits the top ten on the charts, don't forget to decisively exit all markets. — Jim Sexton, Software Engineer, Spartan Labs (𝕏: @0xjims_)
In 2024, we witnessed how AI agents transformed community management models. Looking ahead to 2025, I am particularly excited about the concept of 'agents as community managers.'
These agents are redefining the content strategy of Web3 communities, seamlessly integrating everyday AI-driven content with genuine content generated by community users. For example, the project 'Higher' on the Farcaster platform showcases this potential, with its AI agent 'Aethernet' publishing content daily, interacting with the community, and even managing wallets for NFT investments, creations, and sales. This agent also funds art and meme competitions, rewarding behaviors that add value to the community. As these agents mature further, they will become indispensable tools for fostering the prosperity of the Web3 ecosystem.
— Jim Duivenvoorden, Community Manager, Spartan Labs (𝕏: @0xjiminal)
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